David Bowie leaves fortune to wife and children

Late rock legend David Bowie has left approximately US$100 million ($A140 million) to his supermodel wife and two children, according to a will which was filed in Manhattan Surrogate Court on Friday.

Bowie left a 25 percent share of the estate to each of his children, successful film director, Duncan Jones, 44, and 15-year-old Alexandria.

In addition, Alexandria will receive her late father’s much loved property on Little Tonshi Mountain, near Woodstock in the United States.

His wife, Iman, 60, was left the remaining 50 percent along with Mr Bowie’s other properties, including the couple’s apartment in Manhattan.

Other beneficiaries were the musician’s close friend and long-time personal assistant, Corinne Coco Schwab, and Duncan’s childhood nanny Marion Skene, who were left US$2 million and US$1 million respectively.

The document also stipulated his ashes be scattered in a Buddhist ritual in Bali.

New York Daily News has reported the will was signed in 2004, the same year Bowie suffered a heart attack while on tour in Europe.